The Archive · 1915

Austrian Officers' Declaration

Appended to a summary of the report which we have received the translation of a declaration by sixteen Austrian officers, addressed to the Imperial and Poyal Ministry at Vienna, the translation reading:

"The Russian Military authorit here have shown us, prisoners, Austrain cartridges whose effect the same as that of dum-dum bullets. The wounds inflicted by these cartridges are awful. We protest in consequence in the name of humanity against their further employment, and beg that these cart-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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